[clug] Anyone want to give a talk for this week's CLUG meeting?

[Peter Barker]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Chris Smart wrote:

>> Hardly 8 hours.
> I think there was an option to build EVERYTHING in the kernel.. though I
> can't remember what it is now. I built this once and it took a reeeally

make allyesconfig

> long time and resulted in 700MB+ kernel and modules.

For "time make clean vmlinux":
real    88m51.677s
user    75m32.899s
sys     6m37.129s

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pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$ ls -l vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pbarker pbarker 509818962 Jan 23 11:44 vmlinux*
pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$ ls -lh vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pbarker pbarker 487M Jan 23 11:44 vmlinux*
pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$ cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep 'model 
name'
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$ free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2076732    1300680     776052          0      11600     851064
...
pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$ sudo /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/md2

/dev/md2:
  Timing cached reads:   972 MB in  2.00 seconds = 485.79 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  336 MB in  3.01 seconds = 111.55 MB/sec
pbarker at milligan:/misc/linux/linux-git$
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I do, however, vaguely recollect taking 8 hours to compile a kernel - on 
my DX4-100 with 8M of memory....

> -c

Yours,
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